It was spooky, kooky, and infused with a gleeful subversiveness.
Burton would make darker movies (Sleepy Hollow), daffier movies (Mars Attacks!
And now, 36 years later, a.k.a.
Michael Keaton and friend in ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.‘Parisa Taghizadeh/Warner Bros
It helps that most of the key players have returned, notably Keaton andWinona Ryder.
Its more like his magic touch with this bang out of material feels a little AWOL.
The most obvious answer of them all: a death.
The plunge into the ocean he survived that OK.
The shark attack right after that?
Its … a thing.)
She wants nothing to do with her mom, whose whole I-see-dead-people act is an embarrassment to her.
Her unexplained reappearance attracts the attention of Wolf Jackson (Willem Dafoe), the toughest cop formerly alive.
Still, Jackson has cast himself as an afterlife action hero and is determined to crack the case.
His main lead is some name she was overheard muttering: Beetlejuice.
Residual bitterness toward Disney shows up in the form of a punch line or three.
Its a lot like listening to a better-than-decent cover band do remixed renditions of someones greatest-hits collection.
Except the person behind all of it is, of course, the creator himself.
Maybe our expectations were too high.
